Example sentences for: arcana

How can you use “arcana” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A front page WSJ feature looks past such arcana as pricing structures and inventory management to find a simpler reason why discount retailers consistently outperform traditional department stores: The former, but not the latter, provide customers with shopping carts.

  • The overall mining coverage is fairly steeped in the arcana of international treaties and weapons systems, giving it a rather remote flavor.

  • They burrow into the arcana of their topics and inundate potential acolytes with a barrage of pedantic details.

  • But as I slavishly grind away at the keyboard coding my assigned arcana, I often observe my neuronic (or is it neurotic?)

  • Thus it is user-unfriendly of a dictionary—any reference book, in fact—to exhibit a style so involved as to be virtually unassimilable save by a dedicated, experienced few: except for the arcana, dictionary style should be revealed transparently to anyone picking up the book, and no one should be required to take a course in dictionary navigation or to spend half an hour adjusting his eyes to read reams of six-point type.


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